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On this day — the House passes their version of an austerity budget; Storify gives us a look back at the higher and lower points of the budget debate; political analysis of the House budget; the comptroller’s dime-store novel gets another look; another look at Gov. Perry’s controversial strategy for Texas’ flagship universities; and how school district cutbacks are making it more difficult to recruit college students to teaching.
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On this day — the House will attempt to storm the cliffs of the current budget shortfall; the 2030 Commission will release a new report estimating how much it would cost to keep traffic from getting worse; a Senate committee is expected to vote out campus-carry legislation and Lyle Lovett comes to town.
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On this day – 427 amendments for three budget bills; lawsuits are filed over the state’s child welfare program and lethal injection drug cocktail; the House’s rhetoric on the budget is starting to shift; Texas’ libraries could lose their access to services like Nexis-Lexis; and a new push is underway to up the state’s tobacco tax.
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On this day – Is there a death more inglorious than death by committee, ask backers of legislation to expand gambling; the Senate plans to spend an additional $450 million on criminal justice; and the House gears up for what should be an epic budget fight.
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On this day – criminal justice spending comes under scrutiny as the state attempts to close its massive budget shortfall; parents speak out against massive cuts to education spending; the fight over the Bexar County Democratic Party reached a new level; questions are raised about the SBOE redistricting proposal and congratulations to Jason Embry and Jay Root for their wins at TXAPME.
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On this day – Legislators tackle the prison school system; another controversy erupts over Texas’s much maligned schoolbook standards; the UT regents meet to consider tuition increases; and the New York Times gets a paywall and the world kept turning.
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The judge who was supposed to preside over the trial of John Colyandro and Jim Ellis, two Tom DeLay lieutenants charged in connection with a money laundering scheme that landed the former U.S. House Majority Leader a three-year prison sentence, removed himself from case early Thursday morning.
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